The list of shipwrecks in 1949 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1949.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) (en)
The coastal freighter sank at night outside Port Kembla, Australia with the loss of twelve of her fourteen crew. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The merchant vessel was sunk at Shanghai by Nationalist aircraft sometime in July. Raised and scrapped. (en)
Chinese Civil War:The merchant vessel was sunk between Shanghai and Pukow by Nationalist aircraft. Eventually raised and repaired. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The merchant vessel was sunk at Shanghai by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
The cargo ship collided with a wreck and sank in the Baltic Sea at . (en)
The cargo ship ran aground off Mytiki, Greece. Declared a constructive total loss but later repaired and returned to service. (en)
The 8-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank west of Point Amelia in Southeast Alaska. (en)
Stranded in the Karnaphuli River, Chittagong, India and broke in two. Declared a total loss. (en)
The British motor-schooner, built in 1915, on voyage from Plymouth to Jersey with a cargo of lime, was wrecked off L'Etacq, Jersey Channel islands. Hanna was lost. (en)
The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel and sank east of the Owers Lightship. All 29 crew rescued by . (en)
The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom but was refloated undamaged after an hour. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The Yung Chien-class gunboat was sunk in the Yangtze by Chinese Communist artillery fire. Raised, repaired and put in People's Liberation Army Navy service. (en)
The 41-gross register ton, tug and fishing vessel was destroyed y fire off "Rocky Point" – probably a reference to Rocky Bay – on Montague Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four was rescued by the tug New Sunrise . (en)
The 29-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank in Lisianski Strait in Southeast Alaska. (en)
The passenger ship struck a mine at Canton, China and sank with the loss of up to 100 lives. (en)
The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Irish Sea. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground at Whitby, Yorkshire and was severely damaged. (en)
The converted tank landing ship was scuttled in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. (en)
Chinese Civil War: Yangtze fleet Uprising/breakout: The repair ship ran aground and burned under fire from Communist Chinese artillery and warships. She was salvaged by the People's Republic of China, repaired, and placed in service as Taku Shan . (en)
The cargo ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island with the loss of twelve of her 37 crew. Survivors were rescued by Richard Silver Oliver, Violet Armstrong and William Cantrell Ashley . (en)
Chinese Civil War: The merchant vessel was sunk by People's Liberation Army artillery in the Yangtze River. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The river gunboat was sunk in the Caishiji River by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The river gunboat was sunk, probably by Communist Chinese artillery. She was salvaged by the People's Republic of China, repaired, and placed in service in the People's Liberation Army Navy. (en)
The was wrecked on an uncharted rock in the Strait of Magellan. (en)
The 14-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed by fire 100 yards off the coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska and about 0.25-mile south of the point where Bear Creek empties into Stephens Passage. (en)
The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Hong Kong in a typhoon. She was subsequently scrapped. (en)
The 40-gross register ton, scow sank off Ninilchik, Territory of Alaska. (en)
The cargo ship was scuttled off Gwennap Head, Cornwall, England. (en)
The ocean liner ran aground off Cherbourg, France. Refloated the next day. (en)
The cross-Channel ferry struck a mine off Dunquerque, France and sank with the loss of five of her 65 crew. All 60 surviving crew members and all 218 passengers on board were rescued by and various tugs from Dunquerque. (en)
Chinese Civil War: Yangtze fleet Uprising/breakout: The river gunboat was shelled and sunk by Communist Chinese artillery. She was salvaged by the People's Republic of China, repaired, and placed in service (en)
The coastal minesweeper was lost. (en)
The cargo ship collided with (en)
The cargo ship was wrecked off Spitsbergen. (en)
The coaster ran aground at Irvine, Renfrewshire. (en)
The foot ferry ran aground off Fleetwood. (en)
The gunboat was wrecked. (en)
The tug sank in a storm off Borkum, Netherlands. (en)
Wrecked on Spanish Battery Point, Tynemouth. (en)
The badly overloaded passenger steamer, packed with over 1,000 refugees fleeing advancing Chinese Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War, sank near the Zhoushan Archipelago after a collision with the cargo vessel Chienyuan during a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Keelung, Taiwan, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground in the Belfast Lough, Co Antrim. (en)
The 33-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed by fire off Silvester Point in Southeast Alaska. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The river gunboat was sunk, probably by Communist Chinese artillery. (en)
During a voyage from Cordova, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, the motor barge was stranded in a sleet-and-snowstorm off Grass Island in the Copper River Flats on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. All four people on board survived, including her engineer, who hiked through sloughs and waist-deep snow to get help. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The An Tung-class gunboat was sunk by Nationalist planes at Wuhu, China. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground in Holy Loch, Buteshire. (en)
The 6,300-ton Elder Dempster Line cargo ship struck the Flemish Ledges on the Seven Stones Reef en route from West Africa to Liverpool via Amsterdam and carrying a cargo of hardwood, palm kernels, palm oil, cocoa, rubber, cotton, coffee beans and copal The hardwood was still being salvaged in 1992. Her crew of fifty-eight was rescued by launches Kittern and Goldern Spray of the Isles of Scilly. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The ferry was shelled and sunk in the Yangtze by Red Chinese artillery that was targeting as it escaped down river. (en)
The 8-gross register ton, fishing vessel was lost after she collided with an unidentified object between Necker Island and Biorka Island in Southeast Alaska. (en)
thumb|Noronic The ship caught fire and sank whilst moored in Toronto Harbour with the loss of at least 118 lives. The vessel was raised in November 1949 and subsequently scrapped. (en)
The sank in an arctic gale caused battery explosions in the Barents Sea off Norway at . All crew were rescued, except for a civilian technician on board who was lost, by with the loss of six of Tusks crew members. (en)
Chinese Civil War: Battle of Guningtou: A Red Chinese invasion fleet of 200 vessels, mostly junks, were stranded on Kinmen Island and were destroyed by Nationalist troops with hand grenades, flame throwers and burning oil. Some were sunk with 20 mm and 40 mm gunfire from ROCS Chung Lung . (en)
The collier was in collision with and sank off the Longstone Lighthouse. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground at Mar del Plata, Argentina. (en)
After being sold out of naval service, deliberately run aground, stripped, and refloated, the decommissioned cruiser was scuttled off Cuvier Island, New Zealand. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The river gunboat was sunk by Nationalist North American B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft near Yangjiagou, China. (en)
The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Hong Kong in a typhoon. Declared a constructive total loss, she was subsequently scrapped. (en)
The 8-gross register ton, or fishing vessel was destroyed by fire near Cape Georgiana in Southeast Alaska. (en)
The 40-gross register ton, scow sank in the Gulf of Alaska east of Cape Saint Elias on Kayak Island off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. (en)
The 31-gross register ton, motor cargo vessel was destroyed by fire west of Cape Bingham in Cross Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The light cruiser was bombed and sunk by Nationalist Chinese aircraft. The ship was salvaged, stripped of parts and used as an accommodation ship. (en)
The Type VIIC/41 submarine was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Piney Point, Maryland in a test of a depth charge. (en)
The cargo ship was wrecked two nautical miles north of Obrestad, Norway. (en)
The coaster collided with Algol in the North Sea off Lowestoft, Suffolk and sank with the loss of two of her six crew. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground at Oskarshamn, Sweden and was wrecked. All 27 people on board were rescued. (en)
The 40-gross register ton, seiner capsized and sank at False Pass, Territory of Alaska, with the loss of five lives. The fishing vessel Johnny B rescued her four survivors. (en)
The cargo ship collided with off the Ilha des Palmas, Santos, Brazil and sank. (en)
The United States Army Transport ran aground at Camp Point on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She was salvaged, sold, repaired, and placed in commercial service as Island Sovereign. (en)
The 9-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank Salisbury Sound near Kane Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
The 95-gross register ton, motor cargo vessel sank at Palm Point in Controller Bay on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. (en)
First Indochina War: The D 210-class minesweeper was sunk by a mine in the Mekong River, Vietnam, French Indochina. 29 crewmen killed. (en)
The seiner grounded on a rock and rolled over in Slocum Arm in Southeast Alaska. Her crew abandoned ship in a lifeboat and was rescued by a cannery tender. (en)
The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Sound of Falsterbo, Denmark with the loss of four of her nineteen crew. (en)
The vessel was wrecked on rocks in Slocum Arm in Southeast Alaska. She was later salvaged and sold into private ownership. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground off the Netherlands. All 26 crew rescued by a Dutch lifeboat. (en)
The decommissioned light cruiser ran aground at Newport, Monmouthshire, England, while under tow to a scrapyard. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The gunboat was scuttled in the Yangtze. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The merchant vessel was sunk at Wenchow by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
The dredger collided with tanker off Fleetwood, Lancashire and ran aground. (en)
The cargo liner ran aground near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on her maiden voyage. Declared a total loss after breaking in two during attempt to tow her into harbour. (en)
The 12-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Skookum Chuck in Tlevak Narrows in Southeast Alaska. (en)
The former ran aground in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia, Canada and was declared a total loss. (en)
Chinese Civil War: Yangtze fleet Uprising/breakout:The escort ran aground in heavy fog and was captured by Communist Chinese. She was salvaged by the People's Republic of China, repaired, and placed in service. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The Wake-class river gunboat was scuttled at Shanghai, China, to prevent capture by Chinese Communist forces. (en)
The 128-gross register ton, fishing vessel was wrecked near Mary Island in the Territory of Alaska. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The Yingkou-class escort ship was sunk near Yanziji by Nationalist aircraft. Raised and scrapped. (en)
The cargo ship was wrecked in the Yangtze River south west of Shaweishan. (en)
The minesweeper sank in the Strait of Magellan while en route from Rio Gallegos to Ushuaia, all hands lost. Worst peacetime maritime disaster in Argentina as of 2018 . (en)
Chinese Civil War: The river gunboat was sunk, probably by Communist Chinese artillery. Raised, repaired, returned to service. (en)
The coaster was in collision with another vessel off Dungeness, Kent. All seven crew rescued by Charles M later sank. (en)
The Liberty ship ran aground at Point Arguello, California, United States and broke in two. She was declared a constructive total loss. (en)
The exploded and sank at United States Naval Station Tutuila, American Samoa with the loss of six of her 75 crew. (en)
The coaster collided with in the English Channel off Dover, Kent and sank with the loss of two of her eleven crew. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The cargo ship loaded with ammunition exploded and sank at Kaohsiung, Formosa with the loss of over 500 lives. Two other ships were sunk and many fires started in Kaohsiung. (en)
The ocean liner was severely damaged by fire at Saint Nazaire. (en)
The schooner sank off Cape Farewell, Greenland. The five crew took to a lifeboat. (en)
The cargo ship ran aground on the Schilpad Island Reef, Banda Sea and was declared a total loss. (en)
The cargo ship struck the wreck of the ocean liner with the loss of two crew. (en)
The cargo ship struck the wreck of the Victory ship off Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and ran aground in a sinking state. (en)
The 13-gross register ton, fishing vessel was lost near Kake, Territory of Alaska. (en)
The fishing trawler sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey east-southeast of Barnegat Inlet. (en)
The cargo liner ran aground north of Point Arena, California, United States. (en)
The ocean liner ran aground in the River Humber. Later refloated and resumed her voyage. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The gunboat was sunk by Chinese Communist forces in the Yangtze. The People's Republic of China refloated and repaired her and placed her in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy as Yan′an. (en)
The troller was wrecked at the entrance to Lituya Bay on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. (en)
The coaster foundered off the East Goodwin Lightship with the loss of six of her nine crew. (en)
The vessel collided with off the mouth of the River Scheldt and sank. The wreck was raised in 1950, repaired and sold to Dutch buyers. (en)
The vessel was scuttled in the Bay of Biscay with a cargo of obsolete bombs. (en)
The coaster sank when her cargo of carbide exploded at Irvine, Renfrewshire. (en)
The 10-gross register ton gasoline-powered fishing vessel was destroyed by fire off Hoonah, Territory of Alaska. (en)
Two Fairmile B motor launches sank ca. 1949–1950. (en)
The 11-gross register ton motor vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska. (en)
The third rate was scuttled off the Isle of Wight. (en)
First Indochina War: The D 210-class minesweeper was sunk by a mine in the Mekong River, Vietnam, French Indochina. 32 crewmen killed, one survivor. (en)
The collier collided with in the Thames Estuary at Purfleet, Essex and sank. (en)
Chinese Civil War: The gunboat was shelled and sunk by Communist Chinese artillery between Jiangyin and Shanghai. (en)
The cargo ship was wrecked in a storm west off St. Shott's, Newfoundland and Labrador. All eighteen of her crew were saved. (en)
Broke in two whilst under tow of the tugs and whilst being towed from Normandy, France to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland for scrapping. Both halves sank. (en)
